Hi Igor, Many thanks for your reply but excuse me for not being able to understand what you meant by 'deny access to your users on the file system level '. All I could think is a GPO with a Software restriction policy with a path rule as follows: %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools - Disallowed Kindly let me know if that is what you meant or something else. Our domain is Win 2003 and Win XP SP2. Thanks, Pankaj ----- Original Message ---- From: Igor Sundic <igor.sundic@xxxxxxxxx> To: gptalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, 24 September, 2008 8:45:26 PM Subject: [gptalk] Re: Hide only Administrative tools on Control Panel Hi Pankaj, This one is just a folder in All Users\Start Menu\Programs so you may deny access to your users on the file system level. On 24/09/2008, Pankaj Bhakta <bhakta@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi, I am having a GPO called Additional desktopLockdown that does few things as below: * Disable add/remove Printer * Disable mapping of network drive * Disable regedit from running * Turn autoplay off * Remove Add or Remove Program from control panel Now I intend to hide the Administrative tools on the Control Panel. Found that to hide an applet, it can be done from the User Configuration / Administrative Templates / Control Panel - Hide specific Control Panel applet. We also have to type the filename.cpl of the specific control panel applet that we wish to hide. I could find the file names of all the applets from MS KB but unfortunately I could not find any file name for the Administrative Tools. Is there a different approach for this one. Kindly advise. Cheers, Pankaj